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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1898)
jaSBIP MAINE BLOWN TO ! J '‘ HAVANA HARBOR. FRAGMENTS IN | | I fer One Hundred >Ien Were On Board and Many ‘ Of Them Were Killed or Badly Injured. I astroehe occurred while the crew slept. i uiid Havana Firemen Ho to the Rescue and Hive l ms,l . A , n B Assistance Possitole-The Catastrophe Creates Great Excitement Throughout the Country. special from Havana says: Aqnav o’clock Tuesday evening a P 10 board b ® i nisi on took place on States battleship Maine in [Tinted tilled or &na harbor. Many are fnded. Spanish . cruise . „ []1 the boats of the >nso XIII are assisting. [ yet the cause of the explosion is s apparent. of the Maine . 'he wounded sailors unable to explain it. It is believed cruiser is totally destroyed, he explosion shook the whole city, windows were broken in all the e ses. he correspondent of the Associated |ss says he has conversed with sev I of the wounded sailors and under Lds from them that the explosion k place while they were asleep so | they can give no particulars as to cause. Intense Excitement. 'be wildest consternation prevailed Eavana. The wharves were crowded Ill thousands of people. It is be¬ lted the explosion occurred in a [all kt powder magazine, a quarter of 11 o’clock what re lined of the Maine was still burn Japtain Sigsbee and other officers e saved. It is estimated that over b of the crew were killed, but exact tails are lacking. Admiral Manterola ordered boats of kinds to assist the Maine and her funded. The Havana firemen also ye aid, tending carefully to the lunded as they were carried on pre. ileueral Solano and the other geuer | were ordered by Captain General *mco to take steps to help the line’s crew in every way possible. Captain Sigsbee says the explosion furred in the bow of the vessel. He leived a wound in the head. Orders Ire given to the other officers to save pmselves ‘ter, who as best literally they thrown oould. from The were eir bunks in their night clothing, ve the necessary orders with great !f-possession and bravery. REPORT FROfl SIGSBEE. i ptain of the Blaine Nolifes the Navy Department. The secretary of the navy at Wasli gton received the following tele am from Captain Sigsbee: ‘Maine blown up in Havana harbor at 0 o’clock and destroyed. Many wounded cl doubtless more killed arfd drowned, lunded and others on board Spanish man |war tenefers and Ward line steamer. Send light use from Key West for crew and ’ Pieces of equipment still above water. one had other clothes than those upon ^ u ic opinion s ould be suspended til . [her report. All officers believed to be ed. Jenkins and Merritt not yet account l0r " ‘ H l’ anis b officers, including r . cn atnes of General Blanco, now with an express sympathy. Sigsbee.” lie officers referred to in the above >atch are: Lieutenant Friend W. F^\ U r and erritt. Assistant Engineer Dar " * a rom the wording of the dispatch navy department thinks it is pos e that they were on shore at the e of the accident. ’he secretary of the navy received ! Aher dispatch from Key West at same time with the above, but its [tents were not made public, ue orders for the lighthouse tend ^ere at once sent to Key West in in language, thus avoiding the de that would have arisen from the [Oi cipher. IMMENSE COAL POOL er Way of Organization By Mine Representati ves. ^ *“ eet ing at which representatives nearly 125 local companies hand g coal m St. Louis from the mines ^outhern, P» were central and eastern Illi iuesday present, was held in that for the purpose of form- 1 *!? 1 ;, Tb ^ Re companies which *r < oi i all the mines in the districts iet ” a f e considering an agreement organize in East St. Louis, under ! uois Jaws, the Standard Coal j >T, whieh com- j wiH take the entire out &t Ue mi ues. | NEWS REACHES WASHINGTON. The Catastrophe Discussed By the Officials of the Navy. Secretary of the Navy Long received Captain Sigsbee’s dispatch but a few minutes before the Associated Pi ess dispatches from Havana were handed him. He received the news with apparent calm, and his first act was to comply with (Japtain Sigsbee’s request that assistance be sent from Key "West. He immediately wired Captain For¬ sythe, at Key West, to proceed with the naval tender Fern to Havana har¬ bor. Secretary Long then sent for Cap¬ tain Dickens, and the two discussed Captain Sigsbee’s brief telegram. The disaster is the greatest which has befallen the American navy since the disaster at Apia many years ago. While neither the secretary nor Cap¬ tain Dickens are inclined to discuss the probable cause of the accident, several suggestions were ventured upon. another tel¬ Later the secretary sent egram to Key West, directing that the tender Mangrove also be sent to Ha¬ vana. Tlie Maine’s Crew. The Maine is a battleship of the sec¬ ond class and is regarded as one of the best ships in the new navy. She was built at the Brooklyn navy yard and is 318 feet long,57 feet broad, 21.6 mean draught and 6,682 tons dis¬ placement. six She carries four 10-inch and 6 inch breech loading guns in her main battery and seven 6-pounder and eight 1-pounder rapid fire guns and four gatlings in her secondary battery and four Whitehead torpedoes. The officers of the Maine, besides Commander Sigsbee, are: Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright. Lieutenant George F. Holman. Lieutenant John Hood. Lieutenant Carl W. Ungen. Lieutenant Junior Grade Blow, John T. Blandin, Fiiend W. Jenkins. Naval Cadets Jonas H. Holden, Watt T. Cluverius, Amon Bronson, David F. Boyd, Jr. Surgeon LucienG. Hensberger. Paymaster Charles W. Littlefield. Chief Engineer Charles P. HoAvell. Passed Assistant Engineer Fredrick C. Bowers. Assistant Engineeers John R. Mor¬ ris and Darwin R. Merritt. Naval Cadets (engineer division) Pope Washington, Arthur Crenshaw. Chaplain John P. Chidwick. First Lieutenant Marines Albertus W. Catlin. Boatswain Francis E. Larkin. Gunner Joseph Hill. Carpenter George Helms. SPANIARDS ARE ANGRY Over Prospect of Apology to Our Government. A special from Madrid says: 4 . The populace of this city is greatly enraged owing to the belief that the Spanish cabinet has apologized to the United States. The populace,” the dispatch adds, “are bitterly opposed to such a course, are exceedingly hostile to the government nnd may make a demon stration. The people prefer war to an apology, thinking that Spain will suf fer the least thereby, as war would be exceedingly disastrous to the large commerce of the United States.” MIDDLESBORO QUARANTINED. Smallpox Declared to Be Epidemic In Kentucky Town. Smallpox has been declared epi¬ demic at Middleboro, Ky. There are twenty-nine cases in the town, All saloons and the public schools are closed. No loitering on streets is allowed. The mails are fumigated and all sur¬ rounding towns are closed against Middleboro. SILVERITES ISSUE ADDRESS. Leaders of Three Parties Make Appeal to Voters of the Country. A Washington special says: The addresses on behalf of the democratic, populist and silver republican parties, which are the result of the conferences which have been in progress among the leaders of these parties at the capi tol were issued Tuesday. 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